Conde: I hear you. I do. But of all the reasons you've expound of why we can't be together none are of the heart. I have to fight every instinct I have pulling me toward you. When I'm near you I am aware of every breath you take and when I am away even the wind in the trees reminds me of you.
Mary: You will be the death of me and I of you.

Mary: I was at French court before, you know, when I was your age. I never saw any ghosts.
Girl: But what if they saw you?

Killing isn't supposed to be easy. If your hands weren't shaking, you'd be him.

Bash

Queen Catherine: Arming yourself against me? Am I really that frightening?
Mary: Am I really stupid enough to find out?

We have positioned ourselves for the worst kind of pain.

Francis

Happiness is the one thing we queens can never have.

Queen Catherine

There are two things I can't abide, betrayal and stupidity. And Kenna is guilty of both. One can be tempered; the other can never be remedied.

Catherine

Mary, sweet Mary, I don't 'attempt' to do anything--I do it.

Queen Catherine

Treat them as friends until they prove themselves foes.

King Henry

You do have a way of leaving chaos in your wake.

Francis

That's what kings do--we make promises to everybody. Whatever works for the realm, we keep. Otherwise, it never happened. Lesson for today.

King Henry

I'm in a nunnery of one.

Mary

Reign Quotes

My dear, this was not an act of passion. It was treason.

Queen Catherine

Love is irrelevant to people like us.

Francis